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/Small-Cap Stocks Post Best First Half in 35 Years, Snapping a Long Streak of Underperformance/Kevin Warsh Faces Demand to Explain Whether the Fed Can Fight Inflation at All/Turley: Shapiro Joined Democrat Push for Supreme Court Reform, Squandered Moderate Positioning/Congress Targets Cuba's Medical-Mission Revenue Stream With Aid, Visa Penalties/Bodycam Footage Contradicts Dianna Russini's Account of Traffic Stop Name-Drop/Bitcoin Tops $61,000 as Long-Term Holders Absorb ETF Selling, Glassnode and Bitfinex Say/Small-Cap Stocks Post Best First Half in 35 Years, Snapping a Long Streak of Underperformance/Kevin Warsh Faces Demand to Explain Whether the Fed Can Fight Inflation at All/Turley: Shapiro Joined Democrat Push for Supreme Court Reform, Squandered Moderate Positioning/Congress Targets Cuba's Medical-Mission Revenue Stream With Aid, Visa Penalties/Bodycam Footage Contradicts Dianna Russini's Account of Traffic Stop Name-Drop/Bitcoin Tops $61,000 as Long-Term Holders Absorb ETF Selling, Glassnode and Bitfinex Say
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Markets desk · July 5, 2026

Small-Cap Stocks Post Best First Half in 35 Years, Snapping a Long Streak of Underperformance

Small-cap stocks logged their best first-half performance in 35 years, capping a stretch that stood in stark contrast to the sector's recent history of lagging large-cap peers. The advance marks a meaningful shift in the equity landscape after an extended period in which smaller

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MarketsJuly 5, 2026

Kevin Warsh Faces Demand to Explain Whether the Fed Can Fight Inflation at All

Kevin Warsh faces a pointed public challenge: explain the argument that the Federal Reserve is structurally incapable of fighting what economists classify as inflation. The claim, as put, is categorical — the Fed could not combat what economists incorrectly deem inflation even if

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MacroJuly 5, 2026

Turley: Shapiro Joined Democrat Push for Supreme Court Reform, Squandered Moderate Positioning

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro drew sharp criticism from legal commentator Jonathan Turley after Shapiro called for "radical reform" of the Supreme Court during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," with Turley arguing the governor forfeited a rare opportunity to serve as a cen

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MacroJuly 5, 2026

Congress Targets Cuba's Medical-Mission Revenue Stream With Aid, Visa Penalties

A U.S. law signed into the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 now penalizes countries that pay the Cuban government for medical workers, cutting off what Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart says is an estimated $4 billion to $8 billion annual revenue stream for the Castro regime. The Tru

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Bodycam Footage Contradicts Dianna Russini's Account of Traffic Stop Name-Drop

Police bodycam footage from a January 19, 2026 traffic stop in Ridgewood, New Jersey contradicts a public account given by former NFL reporter Dianna Russini about how she avoided a citation, showing she displayed text messages with Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell ra

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CryptoJuly 5, 2026 · 2 min read

Bitcoin Tops $61,000 as Long-Term Holders Absorb ETF Selling, Glassnode and Bitfinex Say

Bitcoin reclaimed the $61,000 level as on-chain analytics firms Glassnode and Bitfinex flagged a divergence between two distinct investor classes: long-term holders quietly adding to positions while spot exchange-traded fund flows remained in persistent outflow territory. The reb

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Vitalik Buterin Outlines New Virtual Machine as Core of Ethereum's 'Lean' Overhaul

The Ethereum Foundation is considering a new virtual machine for the $ETH network as part of a preliminary roadmap Vitalik Buterin is calling "Lean Ethereum." Buterin has identified leanISA and RISC-V as the leading candidates for that new execution environment. The proposal, fra

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Anchorage Digital Adds Lido Integration, Opening wstETH Access for Institutional Clients

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BeNXGen.ai Touts Revenue Opportunity for Automated Brand Owners After Launch

BeNXGen.ai, based in Englewood, Colorado, issued a press release July 1, 2026 via Globe Newswire positioning the company as a revenue enabler for what it calls the "next generation of automated brand owners." The announcement followed what the company described as a highly antici

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